Word: rung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from 2%_ to 2.1% despite a $100 price cut. Valiant's new and costlier twin, the compact Dodge Lancer, got only a discouraging 1.2% of the market, and the middle-priced Dodge Dart, newly styled with a bomb-shaped tail end, dropped from 5.3% to 3%. The middle-rung Chrysler is a bright spot: it reduced minimum prices, lifted its market from 1.2% to 1.6%. But only one out of every 500 cars sold in the U.S. today is the luxury Imperial...
Loud huzzahs have rung out for Mayer's presentation of real-life episodes straight from the classroom. But there are barely enough of them to keep the casual reader awake as he plows through acres of badly-presented theory and travelogue. (Mayer went to England, France, Denmark, Finland, and Norway, as well as places in the U.S.--which just broadened an already unmanageable scope...
Actually, some 70% of the Foreign Service's "booze allowance" goes for food rather than drink. And ironically, many of the personal entertainment debts are rung up because of demands made by U.S. visitors-particularly Congressmen. In 1959, some 200 Congressmen stopped by in Madrid, all deserving of hospitality from Ambassador John Lodge. Ambassador to Brazil John Moors Cabot, who usually spends $5,000 from his own pocket on entertainment, has had to wine and dine 28 U.S. Governors and their wives and half a dozen congressional groups in the last six months. Says he: "You've just...
...State Dean Rusk, in his press-conference debut, reflected his boss's new caution in foreign affairs by turning back virtually all questions with the grey answer that the matter was "under study." Clearly, Kennedy was treading water while he found his own personal bearings. One top-rung State Department adviser 'backgrounded' reporters on the news that the U.S. had asked the Soviet Union to leave crucial East-West issues alone while the new Administration re-examined policy, or expect the toughest possible response to crisis. (To such nonsense, Moscow backgrounded a predictable answer: the U.S. must...
...dared propose setting up an opposition political party went to jail. Kuomintang officials congratulated themselves that they had neatly disposed of the opposition and expected to hear no more about it. After all, the technique had worked before-notably three years ago, when another political critic, the daily Rung Lun Pao's chief editorial writer Ni Shi-tan, had been summarily sentenced to seven years in prison for "sedition" for criticizing the Nationalist government. His case got almost no attention either inside or outside Formosa. But last week the case of Publisher Lei Chen (TIME, Sept. 19) was proving...